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Thursday, April 14, 2016

ARTSPEAK! 2016: Poem #14 "Harvest"

Welcome to day 14 of my National Poetry Month poem-a-day-project ARTSPEAK! in which I respond to images found in the online collections at the National Gallery of Art. Please join me, if you feel so inspired! But first, please visit Jone at DeoWriter to see how our Progressive Poem is progressing!

This year's ARTSPEAK! theme is "Plant. Grow Eat." It was inspired by the release of my latest book FRESH DELICIOUS: Poems from the Farmers' Market.

I selected today's piece The Last Days of Harvest by Winslow Homer because it's what our gentleman in yesterday's poem was yearning for.... the fruits of labor! But it isn't that simple, is it? The harvest takes work, too, as these boys are well aware.

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